← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Roger Bannister
Thread ID: 6987 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-05-29
2003-05-29 18:59 | User Profile
Sure, medicaid cuts are a fact of life, with swarms of immigrants, legal and illegal the root cause. But it's good to see that politicians like Oregon's governor know who to take care of. Not useless people like white taxpayers, but you already knew that. Whites live in the tee-pee where the politicians do their pee-pee as kids would say.
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American Indians Spared in Medicaid Cuts
By ANDREW KRAMER Associated Press Writer
May 29, 2003, 3:11 AM EDT
WARM SPRINGS, Ore. --
Lucy Gadberry cradled her broken arm in a sling, waiting for a doctor's appointment in the Warm Springs Health and Wellness Center.
For Wasco tribe members like Gadberry, medical care is a birthright, like their claim to the high desert land east of Mount Hood on the Warm Springs Reservation.
Medical insurance for Gadberry is guaranteed for the tribe by an 1855 treaty with the federal government. Tribal chiefs ceded 10 million acres, and in return were promised the 647,000-acre reservation and access to a government-paid doctor.
That treaty is why Warm Springs Indians say it's fair that they get separate -- and better -- medical treatment as Oregon slashes care for the poor.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a bill Thursday creating the distinct standards for Indians under Oregon's state-subsidized health insurance for low-income residents. The law guarantees dental, vision, mental health and drug treatment for Indians, although 118,000 non-Indians lost those services March 1 because of cuts ...
... "There are some people who think the Native Americans are handed money, but it's not true," Gadberry said, sitting on an examination table in the clinic. "If you to add up all the acres that we lost, we still weren't paid enough!"